Vivek johari is currently a Analyst and
have more that 5.5 yeras of experience in database. He has Master
degree in Computer and also he is Microsoft certified Sql DBA
(MCTS)& Microsoft certified SQl BI professional(MCTS). He is also
Oracle certified profession(OCP)DBA in ORACLE 10g and ORACLE 9i.He has
the experience of working in PL/SQL, T-SQL and SSIS/SSRS. His work
basically involved designing and optimization of the Database.He has
also published many database articles on his blog Technologies with Vivek Johari.

Fragmentation:- Fragmentation can be defined as condition where data is stored in a non continuous manner. In can be defined into two types1. Internal Fragmentation2. External FragmentationInternal Fragmentation:- In this fragmentation, there exists a space between the different records within a page. This is caused due to the Insert, delete or Update process and due to this Index takes more space than it needs to and it result in more read operation during scanning. It can also be caused due to the low value of fill factor of the page which determine how much % of the page should be used for storing the records. External Fragmentation:- In this fragmentation, the extents of the table is not physically stored continuously on the disk which causes the jump from one extent to another extent which takes longer time. Both the fragmentation can be resolved by Rebuilding or Reorganization of the indexes of the tables. For Rebuilding or Reorganization of the indexes , please refers the below link: